You can do a lot with $25,000. You can provide food for starving Africans before Sally Struthers eats them first. You can buy 1,518 copies of Bill Simmons
new book (not counting shipping, which is probably a bitch). You can even join 2,500,000 of those record clubs where you get 11 CDs for a penny.

You can also hire ESPN anchor Stuart Scott to come speak at your corporate function. The site HireSportsSpeakers.com allows you to bring your favorite ESPN personalities to come talk to you and your fellow corporate drones about leadership, teamwork or, you know, just how to read off a Teleprompter. The site serves as a broker between corporations and sports personalities, negotiating their fees and putting together their schedules.

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One would think that paying Stuart Scott $25,000
plus "travel is almost always on top of the fees, usually something like first class for two, ground transportation and hotel"
to do anything other than promise never to use the terms "pillow," "cool," "boo" or "yah" again would be somewhat excessive. But Scott isn
t even the most expensive anchor on his own network. In fact, he
s not even close.

Full list of top ESPN anchors/sports personalities and their speakers
fees after the jump. Start saving those pennies for Tom Tolbert now!

The appearance fees for major "sports personalities."

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$15,000 and below

Mitch Gaylord - $10,000

Greg Gumbel - $15,000

Ron Jaworski - $10,000

Tony Kornheiser - $15,000

Tom Tolbert - $15,000

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For a guy who has a sitcom based on his life — albeit a pretty unwatchable one — we think that's a pretty good price. Well, relatively speaking. By the way ... Mitch Gaylord! Still alive, we guess. Good for him.